How is liver cancer mainly caused? What harm can liver cancer bring to people?

Liver cancer is a common tumor disease. Liver cancer is a malignant tumor that occurs in the liver. Many people have had liver cancer, which will do harm to their health. How many years can you live in the late stage of liver cancer? How to treat liver cancer? What to eat in the late stage of liver cancer? Let's take a look at it with us!

How is liver cancer mainly caused?

1. Viral hepatitis: According to epidemiological statistics, areas where hepatitis B is prevalent are also areas with high incidence of liver cancer. People who have suffered from hepatitis B are 10 times more likely to suffer from liver cancer than those who have never suffered from hepatitis B. Long-term clinical observation shows that hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer are a trilogy of continuous migration and evolution. Recent studies show that viral hepatitis related to liver cancer mainly includes hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (BCV), among which hepatitis B is the most common.

2. Diet-related factors: The occurrence of liver cancer is closely related to living habits. Long-term eating moldy food, food containing nitrosamines and selenium deficiency are also important factors that promote liver cancer. Aflatoxin B 1 has been proved to have definite carcinogenic effect at present, which mainly exists in moldy grains, such as corn, peanuts and rice. In addition, when eating a lot of food containing nitrite, nitrite can not be discharged in time, but can be converted into nitrosamines in the body. Foods with high nitrite content are smoked or pickled meat products, which have a clear carcinogenic effect. At the same time, the occurrence of liver cancer is also related to genetic factors, parasitic infection and other factors.

3. Alcohol: As the saying goes, drinking is harmful to the liver. Drinking is not the direct cause of liver cancer, but its role is similar to that of a catalyst, which can promote the occurrence and progress of liver cancer. People who drink for a long time are prone to liver cancer. This is because after alcohol enters the human body, it is mainly metabolized in the liver. The toxicity of alcohol to liver cells hinders the decomposition and metabolism of fatty acids by liver cells, which makes fat deposit in the liver and causes fatty liver. The more you drink, the more serious fatty liver will be, which will lead to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. If hepatitis patients drink a lot more, it will greatly accelerate the formation and development of liver cirrhosis and promote the occurrence of liver cancer.

What harm can liver cancer bring to people?

Acute abdomen is a common hazard of liver cancer. The rupture of cancer nodules usually causes pain in the liver area, and there is obvious tenderness in the liver area during physical examination, which is a symptom of the stimulation of the liver capsule. Some patients have acute abdominal pain with peritoneal irritation after the rupture of cancer nodules, which is easy to be misdiagnosed as acute peritonitis. Abdominal pain caused by rupture of cancer nodules is usually accompanied by blood pressure drop or even shock, which is different from general acute peritonitis.

Treatment of liver cancer

1, surgical treatment

The traditional treatment of liver cancer is surgical resection, but not all patients with liver cancer are suitable for surgery. Only patients with good cardiopulmonary function, limited liver tumor and no metastasis are suitable for surgery. The tumor tissue was completely removed by surgery to achieve the purpose of cure. This mainly includes hepatectomy and liver transplantation.

2, chemotherapy methods

Chemotherapy is the main treatment for advanced liver cancer, which has a direct inhibitory effect on cancer, but it also kills normal cells while killing cancer cells. The most obvious reactions are impaired digestive function and inhibition of hematopoietic function of bone marrow.

3. Ultrasonic ablation therapy

Most patients with advanced liver cancer or metastatic liver cancer complicated with tumor lesions in other parts have no chance of surgery, but they still need to treat local tumors to prolong their lives and relieve their symptoms. At this time, tumor ablation can be considered.

4, Chinese medicine treatment

Chinese medicine treatment has a long history in my life, and the curative effect of Chinese medicine treatment for cancer is also remarkable. If the treatment of liver cancer is combined with the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, the effects are often complementary, which can alleviate the pain of patients as much as possible and reduce all kinds of toxic and side effects of simple western medicine treatment.

5. Interventional therapy

It is also a common means, so what are the limitations of this means? The blood supply of liver cancer mainly depends on hepatic artery, but there is portal vein blood supply around the cancer block, so cancer cells can drag out an ignoble existence. Even if superselective surgery is successfully performed, false embolism, shunt and inevitable micrometastasis may occur due to high pressure injection and other reasons. Some patients have blocked blood vessels after one treatment, and it is difficult to operate again.